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Anthony J. Fejfar
school, but I don’t remember that far back. I remember a little bit about my
name Thomas as my patron saint. I had seen the video of the St. Thomas
More, story, “A Man for All Seasons,” and this led me to choose the name
Thomas. I asked for the name Thomas More, but the Bishop said that he
only confirmed a person with the generic name. I didn’t like that at the time,
but in hindsight I think that I have benefited from being affiliated with Saint
lot as a kid, mostly for fun, and I decided to take on the Bible. So, during
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my 7th grade year I read the Bible from cover to cover, trying to treat the
problem with a bully from across town with whom I got into several fights
with, defending myself. I had to try to figure out how this all squared with
always try to verbally combat a person first, trying to turn the other cheek,
but that if that didn’t work I would simply fight to the death to defend
myself. Interestingly, I never saw the bully again for the rest of my life.
The summer after 9th grade I also went out to Granby, Colorado, in
personal Lord and Saviour as a Born Again, Catholic Christian. I think that
transformative:
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Your ways O Lord, make known to me
At breakfast I prayed:
I also prayed:
loved my theology and philosophy courses, but especially liked the course in
could not reconcile that with evolution, and so put it on the shelf. My
Jesuit Lawyer. While in spiritual direction I fell head over heels in love
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with a coed and so decided to put off the vocation decision and instead
had a legal process course and in the midst of it I came up with the idea that
Realist philosophy. I made law review and graduated in the top ten percent
won three cases before the Nebraska Supreme Court as a senior certified
student attorney working for the Lancaster County Attorney’s Office. After
graduating I went to work for the law firm that I had worked for during my
I passed the Nebraska Bar Exam and went to work, doing general
to get the feeling that I should try the Jesuit Novitiate and become a Jesuit
Lawyer or Law Professor. After just under two years in legal practice with
ministry, and studying. I was graced with three mystical experiences while
in the Novitiate. I left the Novitiate after one semester. The Novice Master
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decided that the experience was to stressful for me and thus would not work
out. I moved home and decided to to some sort of church related legal
were living at the time. I lived in the parish rectory of St. Julia’s parish on
the Hispanic East side of Austin. I began dating Judi Stluka, the director of
project. Judi and I became engaged on St. Valentine’s day, and we were
tenure track position. I was to teach property law and legal ethics, while my
We adopted two children, Josh and Crista during my early years at Widener.
Casteneda, which threw me for a loop. I really went out there with my
to come back from the Don Juan world using Classical Greek Philosophy. I
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then started work on the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas. Along